Bloomberg General Motors (GM) Co, Toyota Motor Corp and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plan to back President Donald Trump in a contentious battle with California officials over automobile emissions rules, splitting with major rivals including Ford Motor Co. GM, Toyota and several other automakers plan to intervene on the administration’s behalf in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups challenging the ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp will cut the lights to as many as 1.8 million Californians in a deliberate mass shutoff, the latest in an unprecedented string of blackouts that the bankrupt California utility giant has orchestrated to prevent wildfires. PG&E will start cutting the lights to as many as 605,000 homes and businesses in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

Bloomberg The payday-loan business was in decline. Regulators were circling, storefronts were vanishing and investors were abandoning the industry’s biggest companies en masse. And yet today, just a few years later, many of the same subprime lenders that specialised in the debt are promoting an almost equally onerous type of credit. It’s called the online installment loan, a form of ...